Our 100th Post!

I have a good friend who posted 100 Things about herself quite a while back and I thought it was lots of fun. So for our 100th post I wanted to see if we could think of 100 fun things about our family. It is rather long but some of them are pretty funny...at least to us! (you may want to break this up over a couple of days! ha ha!).

Here they are...100 things about us:

1.We met and became good friends partway through Senior Year in High School.
2.Mark went to Osorno, Chile on his mission.
3.We got engaged on our 3rd date after Mark came home!
4.Tammy wanted an August wedding and so the engagement was only a little over 2 months!
5.Tammy worked at Boston Market but Mark’s KFC family loves her anyway!
6.On our first date we talked about how many kids we want (crazy I know!)
7.Mark was an international folk dancer (where Tammy says during a performance he wore more make-up than she does!)
8.During our first year of marriage Tammy ROCKED at her telemarketing job at Convergys where she scored various prized like gift certificates!
9.Tammy has HUGE babies: 8#15oz; 9#12oz; 10#9oz!!! (we are hoping this next one doesn’t continue the upward trend!!!)
10.Tammy’s favorite color is Purple (Mark can never decide on a favorite color)
11.Mark has been to 4 countries outside of the US (Tammy has been to 2…bet you can guess which 2)
12.Kayley’s current favorite color is Black (why does that worry me?)
13.After we were married for just over 2 yrs, we lived with Mark’s parents for 4 ½ years (and loved it!)
14.During that time, Mark commuted about 3 hours a day! (and now loves being <10minutes from work)
15.We do monthly extended family birthday parties with Mark’s local siblings
16.One of our favorite vacations was to Bear Lake
17.We have had over 10 people (not all at once) move in to live with us for extended periods of time.
18.We both have a funny habit of creating tons of nicknames. For example:
19.Jacob: Jake, Jakers, Jacobo, Jaques (like hawks), Jacobito (little jacob), Bito, Bitty-boy, Little man which then became MANnaise (Mayonnaise), JJ…
20.Kayley: Kays, K-Kay, Faith (middle name), Faith-a-rama a San Francisco treat (don’t ask), Kayley-Cake…
21.Moriah: Miah, Riah, MyMy, Miah-leigh, Mryer’s Icecream (as in Dryer’s)…
22.Even our dogs have gotten in on the action: Patches has become “Fatches”
23.Our first movie together was “I.Q.”
24.When Mark asked Tammy to marry him, her little sister Rachel was in the room (although she was quickly pushed out!)
25.Our first kiss didn’t happen until after Tammy said “YES” to #24 (and after she pushed Rach out of the room!)
26.Mark’s favorite superhero is SPIDERMAN
27.Our favorite couple movies are Mickey Blue Eyes, While You were Sleeping and Runaway Bride.
28.We almost always sing our kids good-night songs.
29.The girls love to hear stories from our childhood.
30.Mark has had 7 different jobs in his life.
31.Tammy has had 8!
32.One of Tammy’s jobs was JC Penny’s for ONE day.
33.Everyone but Jacob has broken a bone…but I am sure that will change!
34.Tammy has had a Primary calling for 7 of the last 10 years
35.We do Family Picture Calendars for both sides (they are huge collages)
36.Tammy remembers going to Knott’s Berry Farm often as a child
37.Mark remembers trips to Marine World Africa USA.
38.Despite being ½ Italian, Tammy knows less Italian than Mark (but she knows more Italians!)
39.Even though as a family we’ve moved 4 times, we’ve only lived in 2 cities
40.We are addicted to card games, a habit inherited from Mark’s family
41.Tammy loves to scrapbook
42.Mark learned to juggle when he was 11 yrs old
43.He and one of his best friends formed a Juggling Duo that performed for over 6 yrs.
44.They were hired to juggle at various parties, company picnics, a wedding and an all night Graduation Party.
45.Tammy remembers doing the hokey-pokey on roller-skates when she was young
46.Moriah loves to try out new things: rollerblades, skateboarding, basketball, soccer, volleyball…
47.Tammy loved her childhood art class!
48.Kayley shows her love by drawing you PAGES of pictures
49.Jacob thinks everything is a BALL.
50.Mark’s favorite Church calling was working in the nursery (something about snacks)
51.Moriah made a pinewood derby car that has never lost a race!
52.In a moment of weakness we brought home TWO dogs that have now taken over the backyard!
53.Mark fed the homeless and needy for his Eagle Scout project when he was 15.
54.Both Tammy and Mark were in choir when they were younger.
55.Kayley had Shoulder Dystocia when she was born (her shoulder got stuck on the way out!)
56.Despite both being California grown, we LOVE living in UTAH.
57.We buy almost every popular kid movie out there, but the kids have to earn most of them with their “Bean Jars”.
58.It is a well known fact that Mark often prefers a good kiddie cartoon over grown-up shows.
59.Tammy remembers whipping her hair around in circles at dances.
60.She also remembers her neck hurting the day after those dances!
61.Mark and Tammy were married in the Oakland Temple
62.Mark had Hip Dysplasia (hips not fully formed/connected) when he was born and had to be in a half body cast and then a brace till he was a toddler!
63.Tammy had to babysit after Moriah was born while Mark went to school.
64.It helped him graduate BYU debt free.
65.It also made her HATE babysitting. Seriously. She does not like to do it and she does not like asking others to babysit her kids! (yet she still babysits plenty and makes the best of it)
66.Mark doesn’t like to HATE anything…he just doesn’t PREFER certain things!
67.After an extra long shift at work, Mark loves to fall asleep in a hot bubble bath…but they are MANLY bubbles of course!
68.Tammy’s favorite flower is the tulip
69.Mark has a hard time pushing PAUSE on a project…he will stay up late and even forget to eat if he is focused enough on a particular task.
70.Tammy’s favorite restaurant is Octavio’s
71.Moriah and Kayley would prefer McDonald’s!
72.Mark got chastised at church once after Jacob accidently ran over another boy his age and then “high-fived” his sister on the head! (The other dad may have been a bit too cranky.)
73.One of our all time favorite family dinners is…BREAKFAST!
74.Mark has a maple syrup addiction
75.We buy each other seasons of our favorite shows on TV and then stay up way too late watching several episodes.
76.Scattergories is one of our favorite family games
77.Mark loves to BBQ
78.Tammy loves for Mark to BBQ.
79.When the kids were babies, Mark had a talent of walking them to sleep during Sunday School.
80.When we were first married, we made up various jingles for our answering machines.
81.We act out the first nativity each Christmas
82.We try to go camping every year with the “Utah Click” (Mark’s local siblings)
83.Mark loves to write his own songs
84.Both our girls are horse crazy.
85.Mark plays both the piano and the guitar (although he says he plays them both poorly)
86.Jacob and Mark are TWINS separated by 30 years!
87.One of Tammy’s first memories is her Aunt Linda taking her shopping for her birthday.
88.One of Mark’s is pooping in his grandmothers bathtub…he still remembers trying to splash it away from him. (Gross!)
89.Moriah has an incredible memory of events…so watch what you say or do around her!
90.Kayley use to sing Gloria to sleep when she was a puppy.
91.We love to go to museums, zoos and aquariums as a family!
92.Tammy and Mark became big fans of the comedian Brian Reagan and love to say, “How true that is!”
93.Mark has only cut the umbilical cord of one of his children! (which happen to be wrapped tightly around Jacob’s neck)
94.After family scripture study, we all RACE to be the first one on our knees for family prayer!
95.Mark wants to take Tammy to both Chile and Italy one day.
96.Tammy has a type of ‘Skin’ Cancer that requires her to tan frequently…weird.
97.Mark has acquired a fairly large collection of Penguins and Penguin related items.
98.We are night owls. All of us love to sleep in (but the girls seem to be getting up earlier all the time!)
99.We love summer bike rides.
100. We love each other!